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Am I finally cycled after nearly 6 weeks? Todays water results....Ammonia.....0, Nitrites..0, Nitrates....10ppm.

The fish........apart from my beautiful wife. (She reads this board too). :rolleyes:

I have a little black book. It used to have phone numbers and details of girlfriends in it......but now it has details of fish/water tests and car registrations of cars that park outside of my house!!

Nice Angels matey. Are they ok to keep in a community tank? Always remember my dad kept them when I was a lad and he used to say something like, "they may be called Angelfish....but they sometimes have a bit of the devil in them". But thinking retrospectively, he probably had loads of fish...

You sound as technically inept as I am waterdrop lol. :blush: Good to hear that you and the lad are getting back on course with the tank.

There are some very good tropical fish sites on the internet highway. Personally I have one prefered site that I spend most of my fish related leisure time on...but there are about another 6 or so that I like to visit as the craik and banter on the message boards are slightly different. I say go...

Have started to get the same thing with my tank which has been running for about 8 weeks. I might get a real plant and reduce the time the lights are on. Currently they get switched on at 8 am and switch off midnight!!!

Sorry to read about your tank failure waterdrop. It must be every aquarists worst worry for this to happen. How has your lad taken it all? I wish you both well with the new set up. All of this talk has got me worried about my tank/stand. The tank sems to sit on the stand with about 5mm to the...

Because my son wanted to keep tropical fish.

I joined the PFK board when I couldn't access the TFF. I didn't post anything (I don't recall posting owt like) because i was happy enough to just log on and read what was happening on their board at that moment of time......(got some great info and advice into the bargain).

Have e-mailed Fluval/Hagan customer advice whotsit. Lets see if they reply.

(Otterdance) I have the same problem with my Fluval Roma 240. A the odd droplet of water runs down the outside of the front pane from the hood frame - always in the same place. It's not often, usually just when I'm doing maintenance or if the fish are a bit frisky but it is annoying. Dropping...

Thanks for the reply. The problem isn't a leak at a glass pane to glass pane join. But where the hood frame overlaps the glass at the top of the tank. Does sillicone just seal glass to glass and not glass to plastic?

I have a Fluval tank. It is rectangular....not the bowed type. I think it is leaking water, (like an evaporation kind of leak) at the front where the hood/cover joins the glass. The water doesn't leak from evaporated water coming out of any of the cover items but deffo from where the hood base...

Plenty in there to think about and debate. I'ma bit shellshocked and probably need to read through a few more times to get a clearer idea of the concept(s).

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Thanks Colin_T. I don't really know if my filter has a compartment for bio whotsits..have managed to lose instructions. Will have to wait until I do my first sponge clean and have a good look at the setup inside.

in a Fluval 3 filter. It currently has a basic foam filter pad. Would balls and rings give more surface area ? Dunno if there is a compartment or owt for these, but I could either cut holes in the foam and fill them or cut the foam in half lengthwise and "sandwich" bio balls between the 2...

Mine must be ok. Have tested domestic water. Ammonia = 0, (mellow yellow). Nitrates = 5ppm, (not mellow yellow..next colour down.

Welcome bearlasmom...any chance of some pics of your tank/cichlids? :good:

Welcome BSH. Bettas, beautiful as they are, are just too high maintenence fish for a struggling noob like myself. :blink:

Don't recall shaking timing being mentioned!! Just the reading time. Even as an eccentric Brit...I wouldn't mess with the shaking timings!! (unless I was Austin Powers).

Me and my lad are in a pseudo surreal fishless cycling state. We started, (with good intent) about 15 days ago for a fishless cycle but for about the first week we didn't know how much ammonia was in the tank!! Yep..the rest is more add and wait method whotsit. We think that we may be near to...

Thats a point Dan81192. My LFS know that I am trying to cycle a tank, (coz I told 'em like) and they didn't offer to give or sell me some bacteria enriched gravel or filter foam......Think I need to say goodbye to them and find a "good 'un".

I have done some basic form of trial for my API multitest kit. I know it isn't clinically sound but I reckon that there is no need to meticulously time the 5 minutes after putting the drops in the test tube for the Ammonia/NitrAtes and NitrItes tests. I have recently completed these tests and...

When testing the tank water as a noob...I think that your mind can play tricks on your vision :crazy: Your eyes see the actual colour change, but if it wasn't the result that you were hoping for then your mind makes you interpret the resulting colour change towards a more favourable test...

Thank you. I can't see myself downloading/uploading, (whatever the term is) any pics as I don't have a digital camera. But for future reference....down/uploading pics appears to be a skill required for most fishkeeping boards. But I do enjoy viewing all of the fish/setups/ on this website. :good:

Now there is an inspiring post to everyone, (incl me) who may be struggling to cycle a tank at present. It must be a great feeling when it is all done..and you have beautiful and healthy fish in the tank. Peace and tranquility personified.....the "calm after the storm". Congrats to you Gilli. :good:

I think there will be more advice offered by some of the more experienced posters on here. I am very new to all of this testing thing...but my answers are my own interpretation to your questions. Best of luck to you.

I don't know what situation you are testing for ammonia matey. I will probably get shot down for this, but I think you should be getting a test kit that allows for higher ppm readings if you are cycling a tank as you need to know what ammonia to add depending on current, (usually quite high)...

1 mg/L = 1 ppm.

I didn't realise that the age of a photo mattered? Could someone offer a more educated answer?

Hello. Don't know if your tank will cycle within 5 weeks. But there is an ammonia calculator in the Aquarium Calculator section. Hope this helps you.

It's shocking to receive a tank in the post in that condition. I was just wondering if the package had any "handle with care" warning stickers, (or the likes) on it? Me and my son are new to fishkeeping and we have a 90 litre Fluval tank set up and cycling at present. We are interested in...

Yes..it's got to be working with litres for me but even then, I like to attempt to work out what something weighs in imperial weight or costs pre decimalisation!!! I am of the age when learning about pounds, shillings, pence, drams, ounces, inches, yards, acres, furlongs and imperial miles was...

Sounds good. Unfortunately I can't view the "user posted image". Do I have to click somewhere to see it?

It is more fish in cycle (without the fish) than a fishless cycle. :blush: I need to get some serious ammounts of ammonia into the tank rather than messing around with degrading fish food. Its difficult to try to explain to the lad about the ammonia as he sees it as basically similar to adding...

Day 8. Not so much a fishless cycle...more like just mullarking around..but very enjoyable mullarkey, if you get my drift. Have now got an API master test kit. I even used the test tubes and added the drops in a "mad scientist" style...mainly to bolster my son as he is still disappointed that he...

Hoping to get an API multi test kit today waterdrop. At the moment I have been trying to test water with paper strips. 2 problems...... 1) Difficult to observe the colour changes esp between the critical first two reading squares for nitrAtes and nitrItes..NitrAtes go from 0-10ppm and NitrItes...

Lol :D I agree....I could just about grasp the oxygen/CO2 cycle...but the nitrogen cycle was totally beyond me!! Plus I was probs too busy trying to impress a certain lass that I fancied!!! Easier to learn now that my hormones have settled! :(